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Someone Elses Child Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
55
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Youth Development$1.1MEducation$778kPhilanthropy$612kInternational$478kArts & Culture$398kHealth$335kHuman Services$201kRecreation & Sports$117kOther$0
02FY2024 · 55 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k37 grants · $755k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $387k
$20,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$6.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Apprentice Learning$65,000
Boch Center$60,000
Youth Harbors$60,000
UC Santa Barbara Fdn$52,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
Young Man with a Plan$50,000
Girls Inc of Lynn$50,000
Acuavita Foundation$40,000
Reed Foundation$35,000
Friends of the Hernandez School$35,000
Amal Alliance$30,000
MAIA$30,000
Hyde Square Task Force$30,000
Rwanda Youth Partnership$30,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $403k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON: $3k → 16%In the Making: $200 → 14%SPRINGBROOK: $30k → 13%WAKING WOMEN HEALING INSTITUTE: $250 → 11%REALIZE IMPACT: $10k → 10%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $500 → 6%The City School: $15k → 16%Life House Foundation for Children: $20k → 14%SPRINGBROOK: $5k → 13%RUNWAY FOR RECOVERY: $15k → 10%SPRINGBROOK: $2k → 13%Runway for Recovery: $10k → 10%Life House Foundation for Children: $15k → 14%Jewish Community Center of the Nort: $10k → 10%Waltham Partnership for Youth Inc: $20k → 8%Waltham Partnership for Youth Inc: $15k → 8%WALTHAM PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUTH: $2k → 8%OUR SPACE: $15k → 8%Our Space: $10k → 8%OUR SPACE: $2k → 8%THE CHILDREN'S ROOM: $15k → 8%OUR SPACE: $1k → 8%The Childrens Room: $10k → 8%SMART FROM THE START: $15k → 16%Smart form the Start: $15k → 16%SMART FROM THE START: $10k → 16%SMART FROM THE START: $10k → 16%Bryce Journey: $10k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $15k → 16%SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM: $100k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $1k → 16%SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM: $1k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
MO
VA
MD
DE
TN
NC
DC
HI
LA
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.7M · 77 repeat orgs$751k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

77 repeat relationships: 44 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

77
119

Total granted

$3.7M
$659k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+18%

Still filing today

70%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthArts & CultureInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • TW
    THE WANG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $284k · revenue +2%
  • UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · $207k · revenue +224%
  • THE REAL PROGRAM INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $164k · revenue +248% · 72% of their budget

Funded once

  • DP
    DC PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2020 · $40k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $30k
  • HISPANICS IN PHILANTHROPY
    one grant, 2022 · $26k · revenue -56%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Upward Project

To provide low income, first generation students who attend selective colleges the skills and resources they need to succeed in college and graduate prepared for careers in competitive and high wage fields. To seek upward mobility for…

Education
2
Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc

Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…

Education
3
Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc

To inspire excitement for learning, create paths to and through college, and promote careers in education.

Education
4
Urban Impact Initiative Massachusetts

Urban Impact is dedicated to prioritizing the reduction of the impact of poverty for families in the Commonwealth. The organization offers a plethora of small business corporate and community opportunities. These opportunities include…

Youth Development
5
Digital Ready Inc

Digital Ready activates the creative potential of young adults, especially low-income residents, to build tangible pathways to economic opportunities in Boston's innovation economy.

Education
6
Boston After School & Beyond Inc

Boston after school & beyond, inc. is a public private partnership that pursues a unified after-school and summer learning system that promotes stakeholder alignment, a focus on results, and access to learning opportunities, particularly…

Education
7
Up Education Network

The principal intent of the organization is to conduct activities to advance education reform in public schools, including public charter schools. specifically, the organization will engage in activities to support and transform…

Education
8
More Than Words Inc

Our mission is to empower youth who are in foster care, court involved, homeless or out of school to take charge of their lives by taking charge of a business.

—
9
Bpe Inc

Bpe drives exceptional outcomes for all students by developing great teachers and great schools. for three decades, bpe (formerly the boston plan for excellence) has devised solutions to the toughest challenges faced by boston's students…

Education
10
Educational Divide Reform Inc

Educational divide reform, inc. advances the mission to promote global citizenship education, social inclusion and community development through youth education.

Unclassified
11
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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12
The Center for Teen Empowerment Inc

To employ, train, and empower youth to, in collaboration with adults, create peace, equity, and justice.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Smart From the Start Inc; the most unlike its peers is Rebeckha Lynn Whitefield Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

114 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 114 of the 209 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
30
Early backer (in before they grew)
113/114
Grantees still filing
76/114
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $132,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHOMPSON ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND: $94,500 · OtherMAIA: $80,000 · OtherYouth Harbors: $78,000 · OtherBOSTON PLAN FOR EXCELLENCE: $72,050 · OtherREED FOUNDATION FOR AUTISM INC: $130,000 · OtherREED FOUNDATION FOR AUTISM INCACUAVITA FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 · Other+122 more: $1,371,203 · Other+122 moreGIRLS INCORPORATED OF BOSTON AND LYNN: $160,110 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCORPORAT…APPRENTICE LEARNING INC: $122,500 · Youth DevelopmentAPPRENTICE LEARN…YOUNG MAN WITH A PLAN INC: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG MAN WITH A…BUILDING AUDACITY: $67,488 · Youth DevelopmentBUILDING AUDACIT…PEACE FIRST INC: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentPEACE FIRST INCDistrict C: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentDistrict CDOWNCITY DESIGN: $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentSISTERS UNCHAINED INC: $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentMINDS MATTER OF BOSTON INC: $25,000 · Youth Development+5 more: $34,208 · Youth DevelopmentUC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $207,000 · EducationUC SANTA BARBA…THE REAL PROGRAM INC: $164,001 · EducationTHE REAL PROGR…BOSTON SCHOOLS FUND: $55,000 · EducationBOSTON SCHOOLS…NEIGHBORHOOD VILLAGES INC: $30,000 · EducationLEAP for Education Inc: $19,775 · Education+18 more: $106,845 · Education+18 moreMYRIAD USA INC: $198,239 · InternationalMYRIAD USA…RWANDA YOUTH PARTNERSHIP: $115,900 · InternationalRWANDA YOU…THE AMAL ALLIANCE INC: $50,000 · InternationalTHE AMAL A…REBUILD AFRICA INC: $45,000 · InternationalREBUILD AF…+4 more: $16,044 · InternationalSOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC: $101,000 · Human ServicesSOCIAL IN…SMART FROM THE START INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesSMART FRO…SPRINGBROOK NY INC: $36,982 · Human ServicesSPRINGBRO…WALTHAM PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUTH INC: $36,500 · Human ServicesWALTHAM P…LIFE HOUSE FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN: $35,000 · Human ServicesLIFE HOUS…Our Space Inc: $28,000 · Human ServicesOur Space…RUNWAY FOR RECOVERY INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesRUNWAY FO…The Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children: $25,000 · Human ServicesThe Child…HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $16,400 · Human ServicesThe City School Inc: $15,000 · Human Services+6 more: $33,750 · Human Services+6 moreTHE WANG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $283,648 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $26,437 · Arts & CultureBoston Explorers Inc: $126,038 · Recreation & SportsDestiny Arts Center: $80,615 · Recreation & SportsGLOBAL CAMPS AFRICA INC: $17,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $2,020 · Recreation & Sports
Other$2,027,753Youth Development$659,306Education$582,621International$425,183Human Services$402,632Arts & Culture$310,085Recreation & Sports$225,673

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE WANG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $283,648 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetUC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $207,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $198,239 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE REAL PROGRAM INC: $164,001 over 2y, 72% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF BOSTON AND LYNN: $160,110 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetREED FOUNDATION FOR AUTISM INC: $130,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetBoston Explorers Inc: $126,038 over 4y, 17% of budgetAPPRENTICE LEARNING INC: $122,500 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetRWANDA YOUTH PARTNERSHIP: $115,900 over 4y, 21% of budgetSOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC: $101,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetYOUNG MAN WITH A PLAN INC: $100,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetDestiny Arts Center: $80,615 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetACUAVITA FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetBUILDING AUDACITY: $67,488 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetNORTHEAST ARC INC: $58,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HYDE SQUARE TASK FORCE INC: $55,859 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetBOSTON SCHOOLS FUND: $55,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetSMART FROM THE START INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE AMAL ALLIANCE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetREBUILD AFRICA INC: $45,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetPEACE FIRST INC: $40,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetDistrict C: $40,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSPRINGBROOK NY INC: $36,982 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWALTHAM PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUTH INC: $36,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetThe Food Project Inc: $36,200 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetLIFE HOUSE FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN: $35,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetTRIANGLE INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTIME UNITED INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetDOWNCITY DESIGN: $35,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSISTERS UNCHAINED INC: $35,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD VILLAGES INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOur Space Inc: $28,000 over 4y, 30% of budgetLYNN MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $26,200 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetHISPANICS IN PHILANTHROPY: $25,750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRUNWAY FOR RECOVERY INC: $25,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetThe Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children: $25,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMINDS MATTER OF BOSTON INC: $25,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSUMMER SEARCH: $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPREPARATORY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMILL CITY GROWS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLEAP for Education Inc: $19,775 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL CAMPS AFRICA INC: $17,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $16,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe City School Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetStep Up Louisiana Organizing Fund: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetKIDS RETHINK NEW ORLEANS SCHOOLS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds THE WANG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
  • Who funds UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE REAL PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF BOSTON AND LYNN ↗
  • Who funds REED FOUNDATION FOR AUTISM INC ↗
  • Who funds Boston Explorers Inc ↗
  • Who funds APPRENTICE LEARNING INC ↗
  • Who funds RWANDA YOUTH PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MAN WITH A PLAN INC ↗
  • Who funds Destiny Arts Center ↗
  • Who funds ACUAVITA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BUILDING AUDACITY ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST ARC INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HYDE SQUARE TASK FORCE INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON SCHOOLS FUND ↗
  • Who funds SMART FROM THE START INC ↗
  • Who funds THE AMAL ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds REBUILD AFRICA INC ↗
  • Who funds PEACE FIRST INC ↗
  • Who funds District C ↗
  • Who funds SPRINGBROOK NY INC ↗
  • Who funds WALTHAM PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds The Food Project Inc ↗
  • Who funds LIFE HOUSE FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds TRIANGLE INC ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTIME UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds DOWNCITY DESIGN ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Eastern Bank FoundationMA57.4× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Boston Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Riley Mabel Louise Tr Uwill · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Wellington Management Foundation · William E Schrafft and Bertha E Schrafft Charitable Trust

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Someone Elses Child Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Someone Elses Child Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 380%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Triangle Inc: 90% of income from government
  • Family and Children's Services Inc: 78% of income from government
  • Northeast Arc Inc: 73% of income from government
  • The Hyde Square Task Force Inc: 52% of income from government
  • St Ann's Home Inc: 51% of income from government
  • Neighborhood Villages Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • America Scores New England Dba Boston Scores: 30% of income from government
  • Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn: 28% of income from government
  • Root Ns Inc: 26% of income from government
  • Building Audacity: 24% of income from government
  • United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
  • Horizons for Homeless Children: 21% of income from government
  • The Wang Center for the Performing Arts Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Leap for Education Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Boston Music Project Inc: 9% of income from government
  • School On Wheels of Massachusetts Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Mill City Grows Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Smart From the Start Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • The Sports Museum of New England Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Zumix Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Waltham Partnership for Youth Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Young Man With a Plan Inc: 3% of income from government
  • 826 Boston Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Transformative Culture Project Inc F/K/a Press Pass Tv Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Essex County Community Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Marion Institute Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Breaktime United Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Edvestors Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Epiphany School Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
38get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
5rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Someone Elses Child Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 209 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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